Yves Jacques — Actor (8)
The Barbarian Invasions (2003) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Les Invasions barbares
director: Denys Arcand actor: Rémy Girard / Stéphane Rousseau
other title: Le invasioni barbariche / Les Invasions barbares
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. His ex-wife, Louise, asks their estranged son, Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the Canadian healthcare system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while reuniting some of Remy's old friends, including Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude, who return to see their friend before he passes on.
Me, Myself and Mum (2013) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table !
director: Guillaume Gallienne actor: Guillaume Gallienne / Françoise Fabian
other title: Tutto sua madre / Eu, Mamãe e os Meninos
How to become a man when your mother and your closed circle have decided otherwise? This is the challenge Guillaume took up. The film recounts Guillaume's tragicomic battle from the young age of eight, as he adopts the role of a girl then of a homosexual... until, aged 30, he meets the woman who, after his mother, will become the other woman in his life. Beyond this story of a heterosexual coming-out, the film tells the tale of an actor who never stopped loving women, maybe even a little too much.
Jesus of Montreal (1989) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Jésus de Montréal
director: Denys Arcand actor: Lothaire Bluteau / Catherine Wilkening
other title: Jésus de Montréal / Jesus von Montreal
A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives as the production takes form against the growing opposition of the Catholic church.
The Decline of the American Empire (1986) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Le Déclin de l'empire américain
director: Denys Arcand actor: Dominique Michel / Dorothée Berryman
other title: Il declino dell'impero americano / Le Déclin de l'empire américain
Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a dinner. Remy (married), Claude (a homosexual), Pierre (involved with a girlfriend) and Alain (a bachelor) discuss sex, the female body and their affairs with them. Meanwhile, their four female guests, Louise (Remy's wife of 15 years), Dominique (a spinster), Diane (a divorcée) and Danielle (Pierre's girlfriend) are spending the time at a downtown health gym. They also discuss sex, the female body and, naturally, men. Later in the evening, they finally meet at the country house and have dinner. A ninth guest, named Mario, who used to know Diane, drops in on the group for some talk and has a surprise of his own.
Testament (2023) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb
Testament
director: Denys Arcand actor: 雷米·吉拉德 / Sophie Lorain
In an era of political correctness, identity evolution, protests, cultural scandals, activism, media storms, and other disputes, Jean-Michel, a 70-year-old single man, has lost all his bearings in this society. He lives in a retirement home located in a heritage building, managed with care and precision by Suzanne. Their peace is shaken by the arrival of young activists who demand the destruction of a historic fresco. Overwhelmed by an era dominated by political correctness, Jean-Michel will regain faith in humanity with the birth of an unexpected love.
Mythomaniac (2019) [TV] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Mytho
director: Anne Berest actor: Marina Hands / Mathieu Demy
other title: La mitomane / Eine kleine Lüge
Burned out and taken for granted, a working mom suspects her partner is cheating, so to win back his attentions, she feigns a medical diagnosis.
Louis the 19th, King of the Airwaves (1994) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Louis 19, le roi des ondes
director: Michel Poulette actor: Martin Drainville / Agathe de La Fontaine
other title: Louis 19, le roi des ondes / Louis 19, King of the Airwaves
Louis Jobin is an ordinary young man from Montreal who sells televisions at an electronics store. He wins a contest sponsored by the local cable company in which the first prize is that he'll be followed non-stop by a camera crew, with the footage broadcast live on Channel 19. Unfortunately, his ordinary life is so ordinary, despite the best efforts of his starstruck mother, that the producers attempt to spice things up behind his back.
False Confessions (2017) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Les Fausses confidences
director: Luc Bondy actor: Isabelle Huppert / Louis Garrel
other title: Falsche Vertraulichkeiten / Les Fausses confidences
Dorante, an impoverished young man, is taken on as a secretary by Araminte, a rich widow with whom he is secretly in love. The valet Dubois does all he can to get Araminte to fall in love with Dorante. Following his staging of Marivaux’s comedy at the Odéon theater, Luc Bondy turns the whole theater building into a film studio, placing his actors in the foyer, under the stage, in the kitchens, using the most unusual and unexpected spots to invent a new dynamic between theater and film.